DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER SIX-HOUR STANDOFF

A domestic-violence suspect was arrested early Wednesday after a nearly six-hour standoff at an El Cajon apartment, police said.

Officers were called to the home on Dominguez Way off East Madison Avenue just past 11 p.m. after Ennis Staten’s wife reported he had attacked her, police Lt. Tim Henton said.

The wife was taken to a hospital to be treated for facial injuries, and neighboring apartments were evacuated, Henton said.

Officers ordered Staten, who was alone in the apartment and on a rampage, to come outside, but he refused and instead threatened to kill himself or any officers who came inside to get him, Henton said.

He was seen with multiple knives, including a machete, and was breaking things inside the apartment.

A crisis negotiator talked with Staten through the night to no avail, and about 5 a.m. officers deployed tear gas.

Staten came outside about 20 minutes later holding what appeared to be two swords, Henton said. After ignoring officers’ repeated orders to put down the weapons, he was shot with a nonlethal weapon.

He then dropped the weapons and was taken into custody, Henton said.

Staten, 38, was taken to a hospital for evaluation. He will be booked into jail on suspicion of spousal abuse, false imprisonment, criminal threats and threats against a peace officer, Henton said.

During the standoff, the Red Cross set up an evacuation center at El Cajon Valley High School for residents.

Debbi Baker • U-T

Woman stabbed in stomach by man loitering near her car

San Diego

A 25-year-old Navy woman was stabbed Wednesday in Serra Mesa by a man she saw loitering by her car, San Diego police said.

The man was on Hammond Drive near Sandrock Road when the woman saw him just before 3 a.m., police said.

The woman said she went outside to have a cigarette and thought the man was casing her car, said police Capt. Andy Mills.

The victim confronted the man and he stabbed her in the stomach. She was taken to a hospital to be treated for a superficial wound, Mills said.

The woman was unable to provide a detailed description of the attacker.

Debbi Baker • U-T

Woman’s pelvis fractured when she’s hit by pickup in intersection

San Diego

A major downtown San Diego intersection was closed for more than two hours Wednesday morning after a pedestrian was run over by a pickup and seriously injured, police said.

A 20-year-old woman was crossing 10th Avenue in a crosswalk about 8:15 a.m. when she was hit by a Dodge pickup. The driver, in his 30s, made a left turn onto A Street, police Sgt. Ray Battrick said.

The woman was trapped under the pickup. Paramedics took her to a hospital with a fractured pelvis.

Pauline Repard • U-T

Possible explosive device spurs evacuation; it was fake grenade

San Diego

San Diego police evacuated some Linda Vista residents from their homes for a short time Tuesday night after finding a possible explosive device in a crashed car.